A single Xbox player spent one million dollars on virtual currency in Grand Theft Auto Online during 2020 alone. Let that sink in for a moment. While most of us debate whether a $70 game is worth it, someone...
In the growing backlash against microtransaction and ‘gambling’ loot boxes, the UK House of Lords called today for further investigation and regulation of loot boxes in games immediately. The House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic...
FIFA is one of EA’s longest-running and most successful franchises. Each year a new annual title is announced, released, and earns the company vast, vast amounts of money in pack-based micro-transactions. Each year the formula of FIFA 21 barely...
Last week, DICE and EA announced the end of support for Battlefield V. There are no new content updates after one final hurrah in Summer of this year, and players will not get to experience many of the iconic...
I readily admit that I don’t really understand the buzz about Gears of War. The competitive scene looks almost comical with players sprinting past each other and failing to aim, shoulder-checking walls and knee-high barriers with characters that look lifted...
This might come across as wild, but I absolutely abhor in-game gambling that rephrases itself as ‘microtransactions’. Not that we’ve written extensively about developers taking advantage of this loophole primarily in the United States, as legislation still ponders what...
The ESRB has been around for as long as most gamers can remember. There’s few (official) games you’ll ever pick up that don’t have a rating from the ESRB, which has become an industry-wide standard across gaming as a...
Gaming technology has come a long way in the past two generations of consoles. We’ve seen the rise of online gaming, the ability to update games in order to fix bugs, and the ability to add new content into...
In what was the culmination of a bad week for Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends’ development team, their ‘We’re Sorry’ post on the r/apexlegends subreddit soon turned into a battlefield – one developer versus dozens of commenters who were voicing...
The ‘Iron Crown Event’ for Apex Legends Season 2 was hyped up and seriously exciting: new skins were releasing that looked much nicer than any fans of the game had seen before, including a crazy Bloodhound Gladiator skin and...
The discussion of microtransactions has dominated the world of gaming over the last couple of years. With the recent ruling in the United Kingdom that FIFA’s Ultimate Team card packs aren’t considered ‘loot boxes’, it looks like the current...
Since the inception of video games, there have always been debates surrounding the common past-time. For many of us, gaming is a therapeutic and fun form of entertainment, and for others, it can even be an entire lifestyle. Whether...
It’s no secret to anyone that Electronic Arts has swiftly become the gaming company that everybody loves to hate. For those that pay attention in the gaming community, it’s easy to see why. Unless, of course, you’re Electronic Arts....
Earlier this week, German journalist Dom Schott of ArchaeoGames pointed out that one of Battlefield V‘s elite class characters, Wilhelm Franke, shared his name with a real-life Dresden resistance fighter who was captured in 1944 by agents of the...
